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December 17, Michael Zakharyaschev, professor of computer science at Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of London, Birkbeck gave a presentation at a seminar of International Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis.

Marcio de Miranda Santos, executive director of the Centre for Strategic Studies and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation (CGEE) (Brazil) spoke during his presentation at the international academic conference “Foresight and STI Policy” about the new tools for monitoring and analysing global and national STI trends. The presented tools allow to collect and process large volumes of data, and distribute the results among participants of foresight studies. Some of these tools were designed jointly with the Foresight Centre of the Higher School of Economics.

On December 17 Evgenia A. Golman Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Sociology, lecturer, School of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE) took part in the "Culture Matters" research seminar with the report on "The body as a project in personal narratives of women: between subordination and resistance from embodiment".

Marcio de Miranda Santos, executive director of the Centre for Strategic Studies and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation (CGEE) (Brazil) spoke during his presentation at the Foresight Conference about the new tools for monitoring and analysing global and national STI trends. The presented tools allow to collect and process large volumes of data, and distribute the results among participants of foresight studies. Some of these tools were designed jointly with the Foresight Centre of the Higher School of Economics.

The first session of the International academic conference "Foresight and STI Policy" devoted to new trends and tools in futures studies opened with a presentation by Ted Fuller, professor at the University of Lincoln (UK) and editor-in-chief of Futures scientific journal. He analysed specific features of foresight methodology’s evolution, highlighting several drivers prompting the changes.

New article by Andrey Shcherbak (LCSR Senior Research Fellow) titled "Nationalism in the USSR: a historical and comparative perspective" was published in the recent issue of "Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity".

of managers at industrial manufacturing companies in Russia are not holding out hope for positive changes in investment dynamics in 2016. These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Investment Activity at Large and Medium-Sized Industrial Enterprises, which was prepared by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE ISSEK. The report uses the results of a pilot survey of more than 1,000 active investment and industrial organizations that HSE commissioned from ANO Statistics of Russia.

Eric Maskin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007, Chairman of the HSE International Advisory Committee, and chief researcher at the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis, and Fuad Aleskerov, head of the Laboratory, talk about the the value of other people's opinions, joint research projects and opportunities for international cooperation in our time.

International laboratory of stochastic analysis and its applications organizes two international workshops "New trends in stochastic analysis" and "New trends in statistical analysis of time series" with the participation of foreign leading researchers on 7-11 December 2015. Venue: Russia, Moscow region.  Languages: Russian and English.
7-11 December 2015.

of Russian parents help their school-age children with their homework, or even do it with them. These data were obtained during a survey of Russian families with children under the age of 25 that was conducted in September 2015. The survey was part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations study conducted by HSE in collaboration with the Public Opinion Foundation.